James Kenneth Campbell (b.
Leduc,
Alberta
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, near
Edmonton
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, 10 August 1949) is a Canadian/American
clarinetist
This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet.
Classical clarinetists
* Laver Bariu
* Ernest Ačkun
* Luís Afonso
* Cristiano Alves
* Michel Arrignon
* Dimitri Ashkenazy
* Kinan Azmeh
* Alexander Bader
* Carl Baerma ...
. He has more than 40 recordings, a
Juno Award, a Roy Thomson Hall Award, Canada's Artist of the Year, the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the cen ...
, and The Queen's Golden Jubilee.
Since 1988, Campbell has been teaching clarinet at the
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has been the Artistic Director of the
Festival of the Sound Festival of the Sound is an annual classical music festival that occurs from July to August in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.
Established in by Anton Kuerti, the festival's original artistic director, the annual festival was held in the auditoriu ...
in
Parry Sound, Ontario
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since 1985.
He won the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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(CBC) Talent Festival and the
JM International Clarinet Competition in
Belgrade,
Yugoslavia
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in 1971. In 1972 he represented
Canada
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at the 26th Congress of the International Federation of JM at
Augsburg
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. Additionally, he was a semi-finalist in the
Budapest
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International Clarinet Competition in 1970.
He was a jury member on various competitions, including the 1987
Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in
Belgrade, along with
Walter Boeykens
Walter, Knight Boeykens (January 6, 1938 – April 23, 2013) was a Belgian conductor and a world-renowned clarinetist. Boeykens' impressive discography, including several critically acclaimed performances, are testimony to his status as one of t ...
(
Belgium
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),
Thea King
Dame Thea King DBE FRCM FGSM (26 December 1925 – 26 June 2007) was a British clarinettist.
Biography
Early life
Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Henry Walter Mayer King, the manager of his family engine ...
(
UK),
Ludwig Kurkiewicz (
Poland
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),
Milenko Stefanovic (
Yugoslavia
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),
Ernest Ackun (Yugoslavia),
Marko Rudzak (Yugoslavia) and
Stjepan Rabuzin (Yugoslavia)
The Canadian Music Council named him artist of the year in 1989, and he was appointed a Member of the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the cen ...
in 1997.
References
External links
*
Festival of the SoundThe Music MakerJames Campbellat the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
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American classical clarinetists
Canadian jazz clarinetists
Jacobs School of Music faculty
1949 births
Living people
Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year – Solo or Chamber Ensemble winners
Members of the Order of Canada
21st-century clarinetists